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THE FIFTH BOOK OF MOSES CALLED<br/>
<span class=large>DEUTERONOMY</span>
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CHAPTER 23
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Moses specifies those who may and may not enter the congregation—He sets forth laws concerning sanitation, servants, usury, and vows.
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He</span> that is <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/23/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="Lev. 21: 17 (17-23).">wounded</a> in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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An <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/23/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="Neh. 13: 1.">Ammonite</a> or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the congregation of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> for ever:
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Because they met you not with <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/23/4a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR food.">bread</a> and with water in the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/23/4b" mark="b" type="A" title="Num. 22: 5; 2 Pet. 2: 15.">Balaam</a> the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee.
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Nevertheless the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God turned the <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/23/5a" mark="a" type="C" title="Num. 23: 11; TG Curse.">curse</a> into a <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/23/5b" mark="b" type="A" title="D&C 90: 24.">blessing</a> unto thee, because the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God <sup>c</sup><a href="deut/23/5c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG God, Love of.">loved</a> thee.
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Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever.
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&#182; Thou shalt not abhor an <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/23/7a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 25: 25 (24-27).">Edomite</a>; for he <i>is</i> thy brother: thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian; because thou wast a <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/23/7b" mark="b" type="Q" title="HEB sojourner; Ex. 22: 21.">stranger</a> in his land.
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The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> in their third generation.
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&#182; When <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/23/9a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB you are out and encamped.">the</a> host goeth forth against thine enemies, then keep thee from every wicked thing.
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&#182; If there be among you any man, that is not clean by reason of uncleanness that chanceth him by night, then shall he go abroad out of the camp, he shall not come within the camp:
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But it shall be, when evening cometh on, he shall wash <i>himself</i> with water: and when the sun is down, he shall come into the camp <i>again.</i>
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&#182; Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad:
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And thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon; and it shall be, when thou wilt ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/23/13a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB your excrement.">that</a> which cometh from thee:
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For the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/23/14a" mark="a" type="A" title="Lev. 26: 12.">walketh</a> in the <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/23/14b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ps. 46: 5; Isa. 12: 6.">midst</a> of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee; therefore shall thy camp be holy: that he see no unclean thing in thee, and turn away from thee.
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&#182; Thou shalt not deliver unto his <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/23/15a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Sam. 30: 15.">master</a> the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee:
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He shall dwell with thee, <i>even</i> among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/23/16a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE of the cities, or towns.">gates</a>, where it liketh him best: thou shalt not oppress him.
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&#182; There shall be no <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/23/17a" mark="a" type="A" title="Lev. 19: 29.">whore</a> of the daughters of Israel, nor <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/23/17b" mark="b" type="S" title="HEB a professional male or female prostitute, or cultist; 2 Kgs. 23: 7; TG Homosexuality.">a</a> sodomite of the sons of Israel.
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Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God for any vow: for even both these <i>are</i> abomination unto the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God.
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&#182; Thou shalt not lend upon <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/23/19a" mark="a" type="F" title="OR interest (also v. 20); TG Usury.">usury</a> to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury:
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Unto a <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/23/20a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB foreigner.">stranger</a> thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/23/20b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Debt.">lend</a> upon usury: that the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
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&#182; When thou shalt <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/23/21a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Vows.">vow</a> a <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/23/21b" mark="b" type="A" title="Matt. 5: 33.">vow</a> unto the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God, thou shalt not slack to pay it: for the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God will surely require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee.
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But if thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee.
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That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and perform; <i>even</i> a freewill offering, according as thou hast vowed unto the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God, which thou hast promised with thy mouth.
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&#182; When thou comest into thy neighbour’s vineyard, then thou mayest eat grapes thy fill at thine own pleasure; but thou shalt not put <i>any</i> in thy vessel.
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When thou comest into the standing <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/23/25a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB grain.">corn</a> of thy neighbour, then thou mayest pluck the <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/23/25b" mark="b" type="A" title="Matt. 12: 1.">ears</a> with thine hand; but thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbour’s standing corn.
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